macrumors regular

So I have a launch day 4S and the past 2 weeks or so the speaker has been acting up. The earpiece speaker. It sounds like its blown (how that even happens I don't know, music plays from the bottom one, AND I dont have any music on my phone right now to where id even play it too loud to blow). At first I thought it was a bad call connection causing the "static-y" overlay to calls, but it does it every call and listening to voice mails too. Just like a blown car stereo sounds.

So here's my dilemma. If I bring it in for a new one, it's going to have the newest iOS version, whereas I have stayed on 5.0.0 on this one specifically with a future JB in mind (when/if it ever comes out). Also, I don't use the phone part THAT much. I'm a texter, I don't even come close to my 400 minute plan a month, I've got 1,000s of rollover mins lol. I do use the phone, but not constantly. So do I:

Get a new phone and hope any possible JB will work with the current iOS version

Keep this one and deal with the earpiece speaker being a bit "crackle-y"

Keep this one and search eBay/Internet for a replacement speaker and try and fix it myself?

I miss my JB on my 3GS, but I paid $400 for this phone, I'm not NOT gonna use it lol. But a JB is important to me.

macrumors 603

Apple still hasn't released 5.1 so your replacement will come with 5.0.1 which is what the pod2g is working on a jailbreak for. If you're gonna replace it then you better do it asap. Unless you want an unlock. In that case Musclenerd has said to stay on the lowest possible baseband

macrumors 6502a

Apple still hasn't released 5.1 so your replacement will come with 5.0.1 which is what the pod2g is working on a jailbreak for. If you're gonna replace it then you better do it asap. Unless you want an unlock. In that case Musclenerd has said to stay on the lowest possible baseband

Oh ok. I thought it was something like buying a newer iPhone 4S would have a higher baseband therefore harder to unlock? Don't know. Since I have pretty much the first batch of 4S' I thought I'd be in the clear. Ah.

macrumors 603

Oh ok. I thought it was something like buying a newer iPhone 4S would have a higher baseband therefore harder to unlock? Don't know. Since I have pretty much the first batch of 4S' I thought I'd be in the clear. Ah.

That can be true because the newer iPhones will have the latest iOS version which might be unlockable and unjailbreakable until someone finds a way to do that for the newer iOS version and baseband. So if you were to buy an iPhone after Apple has released 5.1 then you wouldn't be able to jailbreak until there is a jailbreak for 5.1.

That's what I did but I had to pay 30 euro I think for this advanced placement or replacement or whatever they call it. If you don't want to pay a fee then you have to send yours and wait for them to send the new one after they receive yours. They also have to freeze the price of the iPhone from your account in case you don't send them your faulty iPhone.

macrumors regular

My friend just bought a 4S yesterday and it came with 5.0 on it. Depending on where you live, you might get lucky and get 5.0. I'm guessing that smaller towns and less-busy Apple stores have some 5.0's left, whereas bigger cities and Apple stores that have constant traffic probably tend to have 5.0.1, but thats just a guess.

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